Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.

Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.

Experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing, and hearing the significant thing, of paying attention at the right moments, of understanding and coordinating. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.

Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness.

In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.

Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.